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#35 HIRAM OF TYRE [971-939 BC]
Sharing the northern border with ancient Israel is a strip of coastal land backed by a deeply forested hinterland; some of today’s...
#36 DEFINING WESTERN THINKING: HOMER, AESCHYLUS, PLATO, PHILIP AND HEPHAISTION
Whenever I ask a question of the Gatekeeper about the governing energies of a nation it will usually receive a straightforward answer. He...
#37 AESCHYLUS (c525 BC – 455 BC): A GREEK TRAGIC
Agamemnon begins with the flare of beacons that flash along the headlands of Greece and signal to Clytemnestra and to the men too old to...
#38 PLATO (427? – 347? BC): 'I AM MERELY A COMMENTATOR AND REPORTER OF OTHER MEN'S IDEAS'
“… the European philosophical tradition … consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” [Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality,...
#39 PHILIP II OF MACEDONIA (c382-336BC): FROM BASKET CASE TO WORLD POWER
Philip, at twenty-one, became the king of poor and backward Macedonia, a small country lying across northern Greece. By the time of his...
